Alexander Mourelatos

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Biography

Fields: Ancient Philosophy, Early Greek Science, Linguistic Theory, Modern Greek Studies

An internationally renowned specialist in the pre-Socratics and ancient Greek cosmology, he has published widely in classics, ancient philosophy, ancient science, and linguistics. He is author of The Route of Parmenides (Yale, 1970) and editor of an influential collection on The Pre-Socratics (Revised edition, Princeton, 1993). He founded, and for many years directed, the Joint Classics-Philosophy Program in Ancient Philosophy. He has held major academic fellowships-NEH, ACLS, and Guggenheim-and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J.. Recently Professor Mourelatos was elected to the Academy of Athens, the highest academic honor in Greece.